Lucinda ShenAdd Axios as your preferred source tosee more of our stories on Google.Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosAnduril has returned to market for a new round that could value the defense tech firm at around $100 billion, Reuters reports.Why it's the BFD: The company raised $5 billion at $61 billion valuation earlier this year.Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz led that round.💭 Colin Demarest's thought bubble: Anduril has raised time and again — all while executives tiptoe around questions about a potential public offering.This news is also hot on the heels of the U.S. Air Force selecting it, among others, for the robo-wingman project known as Collaborative Combat Aircraft.WATCH: Anduril's Palmer Luckey talks AI, nukes and Iran on "The Axios Show"
Anduril seeks $100B valuation
The defense startup was valued at $61 billion in January.
Anduril targets $100B valuation in new funding round, up from $61B, backed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. Defense-AI and autonomous systems reach VC priority tier; Air Force adoption signals procurement shift reshaping defense-tech stack and supply-chain decisions.







